Wednesday, January 15, 2014

#OxfordStripClubNames, or: How I started a Twitter trend.

(Note, I wasn't going to go all narcissistic and talk about this, but since Red Cup Rebellion wrote up a story on this, I decided to get it out of the way.)

You may have heard about a Twitter hashtag called #OxfordStripClubNames. It briefly trended overnight on Twitter late Monday night - early Tuesday morning. Well, I'm the guilty party that started it all off. Here's how it happened.

Every Day Should Be Saturday contributor and Twitter personality Rick Muscles casually tweeted on Monday night how the city of Oxford, Mississippi (the home of Ole Miss and birthplace of William Faulkner) had passed an adult entertainment ordinance. Actually, it was an ordinance trying to regulate any potential strip clubs out of existence by banning alcohol sales and limiting where within the city limits one could open one up.

Instinctively, I replied to his tweet with the first thing that came to my mind. A Faulkner-inspired name for a strip club, and added a hashtag to go along with it (just in case anybody didn't get it the first time.

Things got rolling from there. Slowly at first, but it quickly snowballed within an hour or so. With all kinds of Oxford and Ole Miss-related strip club names. Including one that should have been obvious.

Like I mentioned at the top, Red Cup Rebellion reported on the #OxfordStripClubNames trend on Tuesday, calling it the work of "A few Ole Miss bros." This shocked me, as I didn't know that I was an "Ole Miss Bro." (If y'all haven't noticed, I can get a little partial to UGA at times.) But if I'm considered an honorary "Ole Miss Bro," then I'll take it.

Anyhow, thanks to everyone who made the #OxfordStripClubNames such a success. I never thought I'd start a hashtag on Twitter big enough to trend in the US, so I'm thrilled you guys made it happen. Keep up the good work!